Jess Hill
Nursery Adventure
We are now 3 months into Cefn Garthenor’s new, and very exciting project… A new Native Tree Nursery! It’s probably time for me to...
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Rob Parry
- Jun 30
- 11 min
Guest blog from INCC
It's blag a blog month, where I shamelessly post somebody else's work. I've pinched an article by Rob Parry about the project, written...
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Alistair
- May 31
- 3 min
Returning visitors ...
Some things come back every year … the swallows are the most obvious ones for me as I get a dawn wake up call, currently at around...
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Alistair
- Apr 30
- 4 min
Dam excited ...
A bit of exciting news from Cefn Garthenor which comes after a long and somewhat tortuous journey. Last month I received a licence,...
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Alistair
- Mar 31
- 2 min
A Soggy Spring has Squelched In
Spring has less sprung than squelched its way into Cefn Garthenor this year. It’s been a warm and wet winter, and the rain has just kept...
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Alistair
- Feb 25
- 3 min
Hare today, gone tomorrow?
Many changes at Cefn Garthenor over the last couple of years are hard to see, even if they are important. For example, we had water...
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Alistair
- Jan 30
- 3 min
Pond Progress
As both regular readers will know (actually Mum, you’re not reading twice, are you?), it is almost two years since I got the first of the...
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Alistair
- Dec 29, 2023
- 5 min
338 reasons why natural regen beats planting trees ...
I told a lot of people that I was planting 400 trees over Christmas. That was a lie on a number of counts. Firstly, it turns out there...
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Alistair
- Nov 27, 2023
- 2 min
Introducing the Detritivores ...
It is all too easy to think of this time of year as one of death and decay in nature. The leaves have fallen and not so much seems to be...
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Alistair
- Oct 27, 2023
- 3 min
Natural Born Decomposers ...
At the top of Cefn Garthenor’s land there are a good number of semi-improved fields making up around 20% of the area. These are the...
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Alistair
- Sep 26, 2023
- 5 min
TB or not TB?
Farmers may wish to switch off here. For those of you who are less familiar the rules and regulations surrounding British agriculture...
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Alistair
- Aug 18, 2023
- 2 min
Inspiration (and, err, perspiration)
There is nothing like a crowd of more knowledgeable enthusiasts to re-energise you in whatever you happen to do. I’ve been very lucky in...
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Alistair
- Jul 16, 2023
- 3 min
Where did all the water go?
After a long dry patch, as Wimbledon arrived, normal weather service resumed. It’s raining. Wales is famously wet. West Wales doubly so....
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Alistair
- Jun 14, 2023
- 2 min
Bridgend College Volunteers help track elusive Marsh Frit …
The late May bank holiday saw wonderful weather and an even more wonderful group of Bridgend College conservation volunteers at Cefn...
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Alistair
- May 30, 2023
- 6 min
Dam Bavaria ... Beavers in action
This post is more about the possible future of Cefn Garthenor rather than the here and now. So, bear with me! Beavers have been creeping...
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Alistair
- Apr 21, 2023
- 2 min
Calving begins ...
It looks very much as though most, if not all, of my female herd, one cow and ten heifers (a heifer is a female that has yet to have her...
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Alistair
- Mar 28, 2023
- 2 min
Love is in the air (and in the ditches)
It’s all going on at Cefn Garthenor. Winter has been making way for spring which is, of course, the time for new life. And there...
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Alistair
- Feb 24, 2023
- 2 min
Badgers and a visiting relative
Almost two years ago, when I was first walking the land, on the boundary of what I christened Badger field and a patch of woodland, I...
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Alistair
- Feb 5, 2023
- 2 min
Ploughing on (and seeding) with the Tamworths
The last weekend in January was the occasion of a much delayed wildflower seed sowing session. These were the seeds collected in the...
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Alistair
- Jan 11, 2023
- 3 min
Wrapping up the old and preparing for the new
December brought the first snow that has settled since the project started in spring 2021, and very beautiful it was too. It was not so...
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